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No, you definitely wouldn't. Flying Foxes carry the Hendra Virus, an especially deadly form of rabies, and even a scratch, left untreated, can be fatal. I live in Australia and were taught to treat Flying Foxes as a "never touch unless you're a trained professional" category animal, like we do snakes or other dangerous animals

Hendra Virus is the same order as rabies but they're different families and not closely related.

Hendra has about a 60%-70% mortality where rabies has a 100% mortality in humans.

There is a key difference however. With rabies, if you are showing symptoms, you are pretty much dead. There are a few cases where people received radical interventions and survived after showing symptoms however they still had significant detrimental effects and your prognosis is still pretty much death after you start to show symptoms.

For rabies, this is why we assume you have the disease if there was even a small chance you were infected. You can get the vaccine before symptoms appear (which takes a week to 10 days IIRC), and survive with no ill effects.

With Hendra, there is also no treatment and also no vaccine.

I believe you were confusing Rabies with Nipah virus. Nipah virus is very closely related to Hendra Virus (same genus).

Really thought this was photoshop, but, no, real. Just moved The Philippines up my bucket list. “Golden crowned flying fox (Acerodon jubatus), also known as the golden-capped fruit bat is a rare megabat belonging to the species of fruit bats. Endemic to the forests of Philippines, they are one of the largest bats in the world, with a wingspan of 1.5–1.7 meters (4 ft 10 in–5 ft 7 in) and weighing 0.7–1.2 kilograms (1.5–2.6 lb). They are harmless vegetarians, feeding on fruits and leaves, but unfortunately are endangered currently because of poaching and forest destruction.” https://www.hoaxorfact.com/science/human-size-giant-bat-caught-in-philippines-facts.html

Filipino here and it's sad because I've been around my country's forests a lot and have never ever seen one of them. I love our hidden water falls and natural springs though there may just be a fountain of slight longevity or something.

When fruit bats were abundant in the Philippines, the giant golden-crowned flying fox and the large flying fox (Pteropus vampyrus) would make colonies,[11]reportedly numbering over 150,000 individuals.

Holy shit, I didn't think mammals could form such large colonies. Seems to be a factor of an animal's range rather than their class.

We get a lot of bats out here. During sunset I can watch them from my window all flying erratically trying to catch bugs. As a kid, I would get a small pebble, coin, or anything small and toss it straight up into the air. The bats would dive for it thinking it was a bug. This brought me endless hours of enjoyment. Life was a lot simpler back then :')

My grandparents chicken farm had tons of fruit trees, and the guard house had baby fruit bats every year in the little loft where they'd stash the guard logs and such. We used to catch them and feed them mango from the big mango tree, and they were so cute. Like flying kittens.

This reminded me of a Japanese short cartoon i saw on YouTube years back about some woodland animals trying to stop business men from logging near their homes and preventing HUUUUUUUMAAAAAANISM. I think there was a bit with a bee or a bear licking someone going licky licky licky licky licky licky licky... and the king of the Forrest was a bloke in a vest on a scooter who was pretending to be a panda I think and got nervous whenever anyone pointed out that he looked like a human on a scooter. It was called "Something of the Forrest" but I can't remember what the "Something" was so I can't find it. If anyone has any idea please let me know.

I feel you and I also love bats, but bats in general are among the worst pets you can get. It's pretty much impossible to recreate a natural life for them indoors with humans, and they suffer greatly as a result and die young.

You're probably not seriously looking for a pet bat, but some people have them and it's awful, so I'll take every chance I get to advocate against it!

Why are they beautiful and normal bats look like flying demon rats? How close are they even related? It's fucking crazy how cute and puppy one is and scary and creepy the others are. I still think normal bats are cool but they're not i-want-to-hug-the-puppy cool.

They are rather skittish but they can get used pretty quickly to living close to or with other creatures. Arguably you shouldn't handle them but you can leave fruit for them (they love it). Remember: do not hand feed them.
They can scratch and bite and if not vaccinated they can carry some bacteria that can give you nasty infections. Source: lived with my parents in Brasil for a while and saw these dudes pretty often, super chill 90% of the time.